A new tool was recently added to Minecraft, called the Brush. The Brush is primarily used for the new Archaeology gameplay mechanic that allows players to find historical items and artifacts. After being revamped with the 1.20 Trails and Tales update, it’s now more important than ever to have a Brush. Here is how to craft a Brush in Minecraft as well as what you can do with it.
How to craft a Brush
The Minecraft Brush tool can be crafted at the Crafting Table with three easy-to-obtain materials: 1 Feather, 1 Copper Ingot, and 1 Stick. You can get the Feather by slaying any avian mob like the Chicken, a Stick can be easily gotten by punching or chopping down a tree, and a Copper Ingot is obtained by smelting 1 Copper Ore in a Furnace.
Once you have all three materials, you want to put them all vertically in the middle column of the Crafting Table with the Feather at the top, Copper Ingot in the middle, and Stick at the bottom, as referenced in the image above.
You can also combine two Brushes together to create a new Brush that has the durability of the two Brushes combined plus 5%. So if you have two Brushes at 10% each, and combine them to make a new Brush, that new Brush will have 25% durability.
While crafting, a Brush can have the following Enchantments:
- Curse of Vanishing (Level 1 Max)
- Mending (Level 1 Max)
- Unbreaking (Level 3 Max)
How to use the Brush in Minecraft
Once you’ve crafted a Brush, you have two potential uses for it. The first is to use the Bruch for archaeological digging. Search your Minecraft world for Suspicious Blocks which allow you to brush on them. Holding down the Use key on the Brush will display an animation of you brushing off the block, with random particles flying off it. Eventually, a random item will come from the Suspicious Block and then it will turn into Sand or Gravel. It takes 4.8 seconds of brushing to excavate the block.
The other use for a Brush is to create an Armadillo Scute by brushing an Armadillo. To do this, find an Armadillo in the wild and begin brushing it. It will take several seconds, and take 13 Durability from your Brush. However, once completed, it will drop an Armadillo Scute which can be used to craft Wolf Armor that will give your Wolves more tankiness. You can also use the Armadillo Scutes to repair existing Wolf Armor.
